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From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg)
Subject: dos 5.0 BIGDOS FAT? (was: reseller protection?)
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.115732.656@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
References: <jcmorris.677278372@mwunix.mitre.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 91 11:57:32 GMT
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jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) writes:
[...]
>the DOS5 installation
>rebuilt the FAT to BIGDOS format, which is unknown to DOS 3.3 and prevents
>it from recognizing the DOS partition.

Will Dos 5 really do this with ALL partitions regardless of wether
there have more than 32 MB or not?

If so a lot of software would have to be changed because until now
one can assume that a partition is of the old type as long as its size 
is less than 32MB.

Or will Dos5 automatically convert the old style int 25 and int 26 
calls to the "big" ones ?
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